POR Pull Down Bed For Adult? Time for another 3 adult reservation experiment.

[cobright]

I will start this off by saying that I am in no way intending, or even considering, putting an adult on the "Child-Size Pull-Down bed" of a 'gator bayou POR room.

And yet...

Quick backstory. Skip next two paragraphs if you don't care.

Reserving and booking a room at a WDW resort for three adults who intend to share a king size bed is the first adventure of the vacation. There are no salacious details to this circumstance, my wife and I have what we jokingly refer to as a poly-platonic relationship with a third person. She's just a dear friend and following a very long aggressive cancer treatment she is also very fragile. She normally requires a bed with rails to prevent falls, but when we travel together we usually just put us all in a king bed with my wife and I on either side.​

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Two years ago (ish) I bumped into Disney's rather byzantine room categorizations when trying to add her to an existing King Bed reservation. I got a little bent out of shape because the policy of max two adults per bed is completely arbitrary. It is not based on room size. It is not based on fire code. It is not based on the posted room occupancy limits. I would call it out as a way to shunt reservations up to a higher priced room category except that I'm sure it's a very rare request. In any event, another Disney resort came through for me with a king room that also had a sofa-bed, normally a more expensive room category but they got us in at late notice and ate the difference which was cool of them, so I can't be bitter.​

So I'm looking today for a room for an April trip that has a king bed AND a sofa-bed; which has always meant booking a deluxe resort. I'm getting ticked at how much a room is going to cost us. Like $800 a night when I know that a moderate room with just a king bed would be less than half that. So I pull up POR to have a look just to rage-fuel me a bit I guess and I notice the rooms that have the kid size Murphy bed show up on the reservation page as suitable for 3 Adults.

They won't let three adults book a room that only has one bed, but they will let three adults book a room that has one king bed and one bed that is expressly only for use by children? POR is actually my favorite resort so I'm tempted to book the room and see what happens, except I'm afraid we would show up and find our reservation voided or changed to a double queen room.

 

[Meglen]

possible to amazon next day some rails? and jsut do 2 queens? ask for extra pillows and put under the sheets is another options.

 

[_auroraborealis_]

They should allow you to book that room. The bed is not explicitly only for a child.

 

[dansdad]

POR is actually my favorite resort so I'm tempted to book the room and see what happens, except I'm afraid we would show up and find our reservation voided or changed to a double queen room.

Unless that category is completely booked and your King with Murphy room has to be taken out of inventory, that will not happen. We've had 3 adults in a King with a Murphy many times with no issues.

They should allow you to book that room. The bed is not explicitly only for a child.

This.

 

[KayaWildfire]

Those rooms all definitely say suitable for 5 adults(in the case of a regular room) so I cannot see why they wouldn't let you book this room.

 

[Meglen]

maybe the issue would be makeing sure they get a king bed.? does por have that catagory?

 

[dansdad]

maybe the issue would be makeing sure they get a king bed.? does por have that catagory?

Yup. At the Moderates, a King room is a bookable category.

 

[Orionreplay]

The Bayou murphy bed can support an adult. We've been there and done that. It is twin size, so it feels really small, but it supports the weight of an adult. So doesn't the "Mater Bed" at Art of Animation in the Cars Suites. Both are very sturdily constructed pull downs.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Those rooms all definitely say suitable for 5 adults(in the case of a regular room) so I cannot see why they wouldn't let you book this room.

The King-with-a-pulldown room wkuld not allow or be described as accommodating five people. Three, tops.

 

[KayaWildfire]

The King-with-a-pulldown room wkuld not allow or be described as accommodating five people. Three, tops.

I mean the regular alligator bayou rooms with two queens and a pull down bed.

 

[Allison]

It isn't expressly for use only by children. I have booked and stayed in those rooms with 3 adults several times.

 

[DisneyWishes14]

I will start this off by saying that I am in no way intending, or even considering, putting an adult on the "Child-Size Pull-Down bed" of a 'gator bayou POR room.

And yet...

Quick backstory. Skip next two paragraphs if you don't care.

Reserving and booking a room at a WDW resort for three adults who intend to share a king size bed is the first adventure of the vacation. There are no salacious details to this circumstance, my wife and I have what we jokingly refer to as a poly-platonic relationship with a third person. She's just a dear friend and following a very long aggressive cancer treatment she is also very fragile. She normally requires a bed with rails to prevent falls, but when we travel together we usually just put us all in a king bed with my wife and I on either side.​

​

Two years ago (ish) I bumped into Disney's rather byzantine room categorizations when trying to add her to an existing King Bed reservation. I got a little bent out of shape because the policy of max two adults per bed is completely arbitrary. It is not based on room size. It is not based on fire code. It is not based on the posted room occupancy limits. I would call it out as a way to shunt reservations up to a higher priced room category except that I'm sure it's a very rare request. In any event, another Disney resort came through for me with a king room that also had a sofa-bed, normally a more expensive room category but they got us in at late notice and ate the difference which was cool of them, so I can't be bitter.​

So I'm looking today for a room for an April trip that has a king bed AND a sofa-bed; which has always meant booking a deluxe resort. I'm getting ticked at how much a room is going to cost us. Like $800 a night when I know that a moderate room with just a king bed would be less than half that. So I pull up POR to have a look just to rage-fuel me a bit I guess and I notice the rooms that have the kid size Murphy bed show up on the reservation page as suitable for 3 Adults.

They won't let three adults book a room that only has one bed, but they will let three adults book a room that has one king bed and one bed that is expressly only for use by children? POR is actually my favorite resort so I'm tempted to book the room and see what happens, except I'm afraid we would show up and find our reservation voided or changed to a double queen room.

It's not expressly only for use by children. It is simply described as a "child-size" pull down bed to set guest expectations as to the size of that bed when they arrive. You could show up for any reservation and find that they switched room categories on you. When you book a room, WDW only guarantees you a room on property. They aren't actually guaranteeing you will get what you booked. Max 2 adults per king room is global industry standard. It's not just some arbitrary number WDW came up with.

 

[Disnsyncey]

When you book a room, WDW only guarantees you a room on property. They aren't actually guaranteeing you will get what you booked. Max 2 adults per king room is global industry standard. It's not just some arbitrary number WDW came up with.

But if you put 3 people on a room when you book it, SHOULDN'T they be accountable to give you a room that would have space for 3 to sleep? (this might be a completely different train of thought from the original thoughts, I don't know exactly what is trying to get booked or etc)

 

[kaytieeldr]

Yes. But they aren't compelled to put you in a room with the bedding you booked.

 

[mom2rtk]

Anyone else rethinking these beds?

https://wdwnt.com/2019/12/murphy-bed-falls-on-guest-during-opening-night-at-disneys-riviera-resort/

ETA: Site is apparently censored, But the story is this unit fell over with a woman inside last night at Riviera, on opening night.

 

[KayaWildfire]

I'm definitely rethinking having anyone adult sized sleep on it.

 

[KrazeeK120]

I may have missed something, but is there a reason you couldn’t get a room with 2 beds and just put rails on one for her?

 

[Searc]

I may have missed something, but is there a reason you couldn’t get a room with 2 beds and just put rails on one for her?

Other than trying to stir the pot, no.

 

[cobright]

It isn't expressly for use only by children. I have booked and stayed in those rooms with 3 adults several times.

I am quite capable of being wrong. It happens at lease once or twice a year even. But I distinctly remember a plaque on the bed saying something to the effect of "For Children 10 and under" or something like that. The wife and kids and I stayed in one the first year after the refurbishment was done and again a year or so later and it was a running gag that my 12 or maybe 13 year old wasn't "allowed" to use it.

Max 2 adults per king room is global industry standard. It's not just some arbitrary number WDW came up with.

Two adults per bed (king or any other size) as a hard booking restriction is no where near a global industry standard. It's not even a USA industry standard. I book and stay in a hotel between one and four times a month; maybe only 4 times a year do I need to book for 3 adults but this is the sort of thing I ask about.

Several chains force two beds for a three adult booking in their online reservation system, several don't (Hilton for example). Outside of WDW resorts, I've never been refused a reservation over the phone or at the front desk when booking 3 adults to a room with a single king bed. This includes several times when booking a king bed room at a hotel that also offers king bed rooms with pull-out beds. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. It's probably made more of an issue in resort areas where people are trying to squeeze as many people into a room as possible. But where present and enforced, the rule is absolutely arbitrary as it is not dependent on any external variable. WDW chooses to have and enforce this policy in the same way they could choose to have any other policy so long as it complies with fire codes and occupancy limits and such.

The policy serves WDW by pushing reservations like mine into a more expensive room category, but I'm dubious that the issue comes up often enough for them to have exactly zero wiggle room. The stringency with which they regard this rule is, in my experience, unique to Disney.

 

[Allison]

. But I distinctly remember a plaque on the bed saying something to the effect of "For Children 10 and under" or something like that.

I have never seen that and I have slept on them a couple of times.